You're all missing the point, which isn't surprising if you didn't see all of the background to it.
In another topic on another forum, I, and others, were complaining about the way the Moderators treat us like children, often on the entirely specious grounds that this is a "family forum" and children might read it. Yeah - right - children can't get enough DIY advice...
I'm not advocating a complete free-for-all, with people able to use any words they like, but what I and the others (sorry I keep saying that, but the original topic has been heavily edited, and I don't know who they were) objected to was censoring of words which no reasonable adult would regard as too offensive to be used. We are adults, and sometimes we think it appropriate to use "adult" language.
The word in question, which kicked it all off, was "bulls**t". Maybe I am wrong, but I honestly and sincerely do not believe that to be an unacceptable word used between adults. So the original complaint was that rendering it as "bulls**t" is unnecessary and heavy-handed.
I also wanted to show that it's also completely pointless. My assertion was (and still is) that nobody is going to look at the sequence of characters
b, u, l, l, s, *, *, t
and not read it as "bullshit".
So what on earth is the purpose of semi-obscuring it?
The moderators, of course, would have none of this, and just kept whinging about attempts to bypass the filter.
So to show that my assertion was correct, and that partially obscuring words didn't stop anyone reading it, I called the Mod a c**t. Of course, I might have meant 'clot', or I might have meant that I thought he was Welsh, but...
Anyway - he of course deleted the post, so what I wanted was for him to explain why. It would have been interesting to see him attempt to justify deleting a post containing "c**t" in a way which did not prove that I was right, and that "bulls**t" is always going to obviously be "bullshit".
But that interest wasn't why I asked - I wanted to show that "c**t" got removed because it was (clot and Celt possibilities aside) "perfectly obvious" what it "meant". In which case, on exactly the same basis, it's perfectly obvious what "bulls**t" means, so the rendering achieves nothing.
Didn't get an answer, of course - just the usual disgusting mod behaviour of treating people with utter contempt, and behaving as if they are infallible, beyond questioning, and not bound by any rules of common decency or respect. And then I got banned, in the same way that tin-pot dictators in real life use force to silence those who criticise or even dare to question them.
A show of strength? No - just a demonstration of weakness and insecurity.
And what's been the overall result?
Do they think that the underlying problem has now been satisfactorily resolved? Or quite the opposite?
Do the mods and admin think I'm likely now to have more respect for them? Or quite the opposite?
